The last few weeks I've been listening to some incredible teaching from the Connecting Church and Home Conference that was held at Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY back in August, 2011. I've listened to several of the sessions and plan to hear all of them. Here's the link. . . . Connecting Church and Home Conference You will find sessions from this conference on page 6, which I have linked to here, and page 7. Under each title of the different sessions you can see the event name and speaker. While listening to them I take notes on my iPhone (because I'm either in my car or walking around the neighborhood) and I wanted to share some quotes that I typed out to ponder on later. I didn't always put who said it, but you can find that out by listening to them yourself. Good stuff!
"Preparation for parenting would be better than the getting pushed in the pool to learn how to swim approach."
"Parenting totally transforms your spiritual life and understanding of God as father and you as child/sinner." - especially when they start talking :)
"Budget for everything but babies - babies are wealth." - Candace Watters
"Think through the gospel implications of your fertility."
"God has given all children a soul that is eternal."
"Spiritual discipleship is about a church family with generational mentorship."
"Parents are the primary faith trainers - only 7% of families do anything outside of going to church to teach faith."
I've also been reading Your Home A Place of Grace by Susan Hunt, and although I don't agree with all of her Presbyterian theology it has been a great book. Here are some of the quotes I have found most thought provoking this week . . . .
"Doing family God's way is not the easy way. It's downright hard. In fact, it's war. It's a holy war for the soul of the family. Soldiering is not for the slothful. Advancing Christendom family by family is for those ablaze with passion for God's glory. It is the way of denial of self. It is the way of service." - Susan Hunt
"As we sit at home and walk along the way, our conversations should be 'full of grace, seasoned with salt' (Colossians 4:6). We will hear our words and the tone of our speech come from the mouths of our children. The way you speak to a child is the way he/she will speak to a younger sibling. Do they hear the language of faith? Do they speak of the mercy and the love of Jesus? Are they polite and gentle of speech? Listen to you children to hear yourself." - Susan Hunt
Prayer for children:
"For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God." -Ephesians 3:14-19
"If children begin to comprehend the expanse of God's love, they will be compelled to live for His glory." - Susan Hunt
"It is more about the life parents live before children than the rules we force them to keep." - Susan Hunt
"As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust." - Psalm 103:13-14
A to Z Prayers For Your Child - free printable (in our playroom)
Prayers For My Children - free printable calendar (in our laundry room)
"Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to seek the LORD... 'We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you'... So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet, for his God gave him rest all around." - 2 Chronicles 20:3,12,30
"Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and uphold me with a willing spirit." -Psalm 51:10,12
Dear Stay-at-Home Mom - a great blog post for stay-at-home moms
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